Trump administration will offer all 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign  —  An email is set to go out to federal workers beginning Tuesday.  —  President Donald Trump's administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a “deferred resignation” …

Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management  —  Sources tell WIRED that the OPM's top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir.  One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

Trump is holding hospitals ‘hostage’ in brazen ‘power grab’: AOC  —  Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unloaded on President Donald Trump in an escalation of the brewing Democratic opposition to the new administration as it unleashes a barrage of new executive orders.

Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Policy and Purpose.  Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming …

RFK Jr.'s confirmation battle has turned politics upside down  —  The Senate Finance Committee will hear from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's nominee for health secretary, on Wednesday.  —  The scene Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to face in the Senate Wednesday not long ago would have seemed like something out of a bizarro world.

“Trump is trying to collapse our economy”: War on “woke” revealed as a war on all Americans  —  Christian nationalists behind the spending shutdown aim to punish everyone, not just imaginary Marxists  —  Initially, the most striking detail in the White House Office of Management and Budget memo …

Pentagon pulling Gen. Milley's security detail and clearance ‘immediately,’ may face demotion in retirement  —  EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is “immediately pulling” retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News.

Trump moves to fire members of EEOC and NLRB, breaking with precedent  —  The dismissals target two independent agencies that oversee large swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.  —  President Donald Trump has moved to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions …

SCOOP: RFK Jr. Secretly Recorded Second Wife During Divorce and Acknowledged Being “Polygamous”  —  One recording might have violated state law.  It was part of a messy saga that ended with her suicide.  —  In the early 2010s, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went through a contentious divorce with his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy.

State Department Permits Distribution of H.I.V. Medications to Resume — for Now  —  Experts fear a resurgence of infections in low-income countries if the ban were to continue.  The waiver remains in place, while officials review foreign aid programs.  —  The Trump administration …

Throw Biden under the bus  —  Sleepy Joe landed us in this mess with bad, selfish decisions  —  When Joe Biden stepped aside in favor of Kamala Harris, the overwhelming majority of Democrats praised him for the decision and painted an overall flattering portrait of Biden's presidency and his career.

The best commute to Washington belongs to Jim Justice  —  Most days before the Senate starts its day, a privately-owned Cessna Citation V jet lands at Washington Reagan National Airport.  —  And most evenings, after the chamber is done with its business, the same jet takes off for Greenbrier Valley Airport in Lewisburg, W.Va.

Trump administration may pull money from TSA, Coast Guard to help ICE afford costly deportations  —  The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.  —  Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the principal agency tasked …

OpenAI says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its model to train competitor  —  White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft  —  OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company's proprietary models …

Americans sour on some of Trump's early moves, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  —  Americans have a dim view of some of President Donald Trump's early barrage of executive orders, including his attempt to do away with so-called birthright citizenship and his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

D.C. federal judge temporarily blocks Trump plan to pause federal aid spending  —  The order from Judge Loren AliKhan runs through next Monday, when further arguments in the case are scheduled.  —  Trump administration freezes nearly all federal grants and loans

Departing the New York Times  —  As many people reading this know, last month I retired from my position as an opinion writer at the New York Times—a job I had done for 25 years.  Despite the encomiums issued by the Times, it was not a happy departure.  If you check out my Substack …

'Biden's Book Ban Hoax': Department of Education claims book bans are a ‘hoax’ and dismisses all complaints  —  The fear that book bans would worsen under Donald Trump's presidency has become a reality.  The Department of Education announced it is dismissing book ban complaints as a hoax …

STAT+: Private emails show RFK Jr. making false claims about Covid-19 shots, linking vaccines to autism  —  On the eve of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearings, his physician niece has shared a trove of private emails in the hopes of derailing his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Iowa Democrats flip Senate seat in special election to cut into Republican majority  —  Iowa Democrats have flipped a state Senate seat vacated earlier this year by Chris Cournoyer, who resigned to become the state's new lieutenant governor.  —  Democrat Mike Zimmer has defeated Republican Kate Whittington …